This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Batchel to my good mate, Jeremy Zakis,

in New South Wales. We're looking immediately north to north of Brisbane, the Queensland coast,

for what Jeremy tells me is a storm, cyclone that's about to be named with the letter A.

Jeremy, a very good evening to you.

Cyclones, typhoons, hurricanes are a threat to Queensland

and all of the inland area of Queensland.

This one hasn't been named yet, however, so it's immediately compelling.

How do you name your cyclones and what name is likely for this one?

You know, John? Yes, that's right. We've got a cyclone coming up once again just off the Queensland coast.

And interestingly enough, we've managed to get right through the alphabet of cyclone names

and have come back to

the beginning again, starting with A. And the funny thing is, here in Australia, we actually

preset what the names of cyclones are about one to two years in advance. So when it comes time

to name them, we're not scrambling to the final name. Well, the funny thing, John, about this one,

is that we're back at A, and originally three years ago

when the name was selected for cyclones around this time, we decided to call it Anthony.

But there is a little bit of contention right now because, as you may know, our prime minister

right now is called Anthony Albanese.

So, of course, the concern is that if we call a cyclone Anthony, it might have

negative connotations and especially given we're about to go into an election, it kind of is seen

as a little bit rude. So funnily enough, John, there has been a little bit of a change in this

program. And this next cyclone, the one up in Queensland, if it does form, will probably be called

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